Improvement in channel-buoys



lthe letters of reference marked thereon and UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

XVILLlAIlI XV. GOFF, OF EAGLE HARBOR, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEM ENT IN CHANNEL-BUOYS.

Specification forming,l part of Letters Patent No. 79,750, dated July 7, 1868.

To all whom z'ft 11i/ay concern: harbor, will be strongly reflected, showing,Y

Be it known that l, WILLIAM XV. GOFF, of Eagle Harbor, in the county of Keweenaw and l State of Michigan, have invented a new and It will be noticed in the drawings, that I usefullrnprovenientin Buoying out Channels; have pla-ced two reflectors upon the louoy at and I do declare that the following is a full i the right of the channel, and but one upon and exact descriptionv thereof, reference bethe buoy upon the left. Some arrangement ing had to the accompanying drawings, and to of a similar character seems to be necessary to indicate to the navigator the channel-bank upon either his starboard or larhoard hand. rhe drawings represent an entrance to a l do not mean to he understood that I conharbor, the channel of which is huoyedin the line myself to the use of convex reflectors, as, manner hereinafter described, and a vessel under certain circumstances, it may he best entering the harhondisplaying a properheadto use those of some other suitable shape. light, which is reflected from the buoys on What I claim as my invention, and desire either side of the channel, thus showing the to secure by Letters Patent, is proper courses to be followed. The retlectors B, when attached and oper- The nature of this invention consists in ating substantially as and for the purposes placing upon the tops ot huoys A, of any orherein described 'and shown.

steer his vessel.

making a part of this speciiication.

dinary construction, proper convex reflectors, \V. W. GOFF. B, made of any appropriate material. By the Vitnesses:

use of such convex reflectors, the head-light ll. S. SPRAGUE,

C, upon any vessel passing1 into or out of the J. H. SWARTWOUT.

clearly to the navigator the courses he must- 

